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Varmar Resort Kovalam

Light House Road, Thiruvananthapuram Dist. Kovalam, Kerala, India

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Friendship Means Shaking a Dead Fish

A travel blog entry by dinojay2

6

... the blank looks and people literally walking away as we talked, that this was actually a rhetorical question based solely on the fact that going to the beach is the most popular activity around here and that they no more want to hear the details of our day than you want to know about how the woman working at the lottery ticket booth hasn’t been sleeping too well, on account of the neighbour’s dog, and how once she’s awake she can’t stop thinking about how her ex ...

Well its not Chester Zoo

A travel blog entry by ruthfrankandg

4

... kid George who became everybody's favourite animal to be seen with. After a parched 2 hours we emerged from the zoo a sweaty mess. We had mistakenly though that we'd be able to get a drink in the zoo and had failed to bring our own supply. After cooling down with apple juice and ice cream we chilled out in the park. I'd read about a magnificent temple in Trivandrum and asked the Tut-tut driver to take us on the way ...

Northward bound

A travel blog entry by dow

... the water, Jim was very impressed with his swimming and determination. When it mentions in the guide books that several tourists a year drown by being swept away by the currents, I think that it could easily be many more than that, if it wasn't for the whistle blowing lifeguards. At the begining of the week, they seemed to be mainly stopping the young Indian guys from hassling the western female tourists, while in the water. Not only is it very intrusive for ...

Varkala: Friends, Fish, and Folly

A travel blog entry by miller-stone

49

... we called him to join us for a while before he rushed on to meet Dorothea; but before he left he told us that he had rented a small cliff-top cottage for the following day, which he was planning to use for a photographic art project that involved getting passersby to spontaneously participate. He was quite secretive and excited about this and invited Nancy and I to drop by as not only friends but as potential participants.

The following day we had a ...

KOVALAM

A travel blog entry by carolgregindia

6

... with was from Watford. The other few guests here all appear to be British. We have read that this particular area is well used by European tour companies. Not sure why as the beaches are nothing ‘to write home about’ and apart from the restaurants, there is very little to do, certainly no bars or nightclubs around here. We find the whole set up a little weird and so different from what we have seen anywhere else on this trip. ...